This is simple. There is only one thing we can know, existence. Everything else is extrapolated. So, we are alone. All consciousness is individual, and we have no direct access to the minds of others (yet). Therefore, logic dictates that the universe as we experience it is solipsistic, amoral, and singular. That is our starting point.
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Americans SOUND OFF On Third Parties In The USA | Beyond The Headlines
The only real choice is GREEN PARTY: https://www.gp.org/platform
Vote for Marianne Williamson: https://marianne2024.com/
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Former MSNBC Chris Matthews WILD DEBATE With Krystal And Saagar | Breaki...
Would you like to see the problem with the media?
Friday, August 11, 2023
Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #303
Understanding this is a prerequisite to Entrepreneurism, or at least it should be.
Matt Taibbi: How the Left lost its mind
This shows the consequences of the problem that I was trying to fix 12 years ago before the cancer progressed.
Corporate Dems have reacted, rather than acting, to the insane right wing by compromising their former values.
We now use the very tools of fascism, hard and soft power, to silence those who we should be united with, because we let the right become an existential threat.
Matt Taibbi, an American Hero, agreed with me about Bernie Sanders and fought the good fight. Now the Corporate Dems attack him because he speaks truth to power.
We don't have journalists like this anymore, Ted Koppel was the last investigative journalist I trusted. Millennials today don't even remember him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Koppel
Sunday, August 06, 2023
Seder DEBATES Ayn Rand Institute Libertarian Yaron Brook
This started off well, then both Sam and Yaron went off on tangents, and got into the weeds of the complexity of free trade between accountable individuals.
Both agree that the only ligitimate purpose of GOVERNMENT is to protect the people. What they disagree about is HOW MUCH responsibility should be PERSONAL (individual) and how much the government should step in.
The point of the PROGRESSIVE LEFT is that all people are equal and should be treated JUSTLY, and the GOVERNMENT should provide justice, and provide security even against the bad decisions of the individual. The FAR LEFT would go even further and ask government to provide food, shelter, healthcare, etc. for everyone, because SOME PEOPLE can not EARN those things for themselves through free (fair) trade.
The point of Yaron Brook's Libertarians is that justice and security are the personal responsibility of the individuals involved, and the government should not be a parent, just a guard dog. People need personal responsibility to LEARN.
Thus Yaron believes that it is immoral for the government to tax everyone to protect those who make bad decisions from themselves, even if it is the MAJORITY decision of our population in this DEMOCRACY. It is a reasonable disagreement, as the MAJORITY can make bad decisions (see Slavery, Housing Crisis bailouts, mask wearing, etc).
Mr. Brooks voluntarily choose to JOIN this DEMOCRACY and must therefore voluntarily pay his taxes, but he has the right to disagree with how the tax money is spent and the freedom to try and convince others. I note that Yaron is very clear on Ayn Rand and Objectivist Philosophy, and that he simply doesn't agree that everyone is 'equal', so those who lack MERIT shouldn't be rewarded and protected from their personal decisions. He's very EXPLICIT about his beliefs.
What fascinates me is that SAM doesn't recognize that his PERSONAL decision to recognize human suffering, his VALUE of empathy, shouldn't be imposed upon everyone, just because it's his INDIVIDUAL choice. It's not wrong to provide charity if you BELIEVE that you are paying for something you freely choose to desire (ending suffering, etc.), but it is WRONG to enforce your beliefs on others.
Ayn Rand Fan Debates ‘Objectivism’ With Sam
A rational actor who cares about THEMSELVES would limit their use of antibiotics to protect THEMSELVES, and those they care about, from future harm. And TAXES can be voluntary, if you FREELY CHOOSE to be part of a nation or other governmental organization in which YOU give the power to tax.
The Nation of the USA was developed upon the value of the INDIVIDUAL, what RAND loved was that the USA is a government of the PEOPLE who freely choose to be part of the nation and, freely choose to pay taxes, unlike Stalin's Russia where she was afflicted by Authoritarian (military totalitarian) Collectivism. The RATIONAL SELF INTEREST is that we can all freely choose to join a Union, a State, or a Country.
Objectivists choose to work, to freely trade with others, and produce, not because they are cohersed, but because they are ENLIGHTENED, and recognized that all INDIVIDUALS are limited and NEED others to survive. Dan didn't think things through, but neither did Sam. If you monopolize land, which is against RAND's ideals, then I choose to monopolize Oxygen, and therefore I will trade you Oxygen for Land. Else we can justly put some things off limits to ownership, like the commodities necessary for survival. As RAND would say, denying an individual the resources for survival is violence.
You need not earn money, you need only CHOOSE to be self-sufficient. Robinson Crusoe had FRIDAY, a person who freely chose to be a slave. Libertarians are not Objectivists. Objectivism is an internally consistent rational philosophy, and in creating it Ayn Ran created the first SECULAR ETHICS. This is the first step in defeating the irrational ethics of religions.
The MR audience will never achieve the goal of a collectivist union as long as it allows for the irrational religious people to be part of the collective, for they always divide to conquer. Any Rand laid down the foundation for a Rational Ethics, but was never allowed to move on toward ENLIGHTENED rational self-interest, because everyone attacked her out of fear that rational objectivism would defeat their own schemes for power and control. Too bad she only lived through WWII until 1984, she never saw the outcome of 'free market' capitalism, and couldn't critique the failures, yet if you read her fictions, she not only predicted Neoliberal Corporate Democrats, she also predicted #tRump (see Mr Turner from Atlas Shrugged).
Rational, Self-Interested people can freely choose to become part of a collective, if it is in their own best interest. Enlightened Rational Self-Interested people already have.
Former Libertarian Begs Sam To Take Ayn Rand Seriously
The reason Sam doesn't care about the difference between Libertarians and Objectivists, and thinks it's "Sociopathic Mental Masturbation" is because he's not RATIONAL, he is NOT a philosopher, he's never thought through first principals, he doesn't care about defining his values or stating premises. He's a Leftist Political Commentator, but he doesn't even know what that means, he's just being provocative for ratings*.
What the caller is TRYING (and failing) to say, is that CONTEMPORARY LIBERTARIANS used AYN RAND's philosophy to legitimize their immature concept of "freedom", but by REVERSING the very concepts and values she developed. Rand RATIONALLY THINKS that people should be REWARDED for their MERIT, and she would define "merit" as being good at whatever 'job' you choose to do. Thus, for RAND those who are good should become wealthy by EARNING payments through free (fair) trade.
Today's LIBERTARIANS reverse Rand's ethic, they BELIEVE that those who have WEALTH must have MERIT. The problem is, of course, most rich people, who use these libertarian arguments, did not EARN their money. Most rich people get their money in one of three ways: THEFT (or fraud), INHERITANCE, or MARRIAGE. Thus libertarians think that the rich have MERIT, which Rand would think was false, she would call them thieves and/or parasites (children/spouses).
The reason that SAM and EMMA don't like BOTH Objectivists and Libertarians because neither likes TAXES or REGULATIONS. The political LEFT believe that taxes and regulations are NECESSARY to balance OUTCOMES, but the Libertarians believe that "taxes are theft", taking from the productive to give to the unproductive, and Objectivists think that taxes and regulations limit FREE (fair) TRADE (contracts) between people (such as unions and governments).
Reversing the relationship between "MERIT" and "WEALTH" in a meritocracy is not trivial, it is fundamental to our government and way of life. Understanding this would help the LEFT be coherent and achieve political power by uniting those Objectivists who are Enlightened, and Rational. The first step is coming to a commonly agreed definition of MERIT.
I define MERIT as MLK Jr. did, as the content of one's character and the quality of one's mind, and I would add hard work and persistence. Does Sam's argument have merit? No, he doesn't care.
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Corporations Control Our Governments: Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard
Most of you will agree that corporations have undue influence over our democracies, but exactly how this influence is exerted is tricky to illustrate - and that is by design. Behind innocuous sounding acronyms and worthy sounding trade agreements are the real cogs that allow the global corporate machine to corrupt societies and our guest this week, Matt Kennard, has spent the last two years investigating these shady entities. In his new book, ‘Silent Coup’, he and co-author Claire Provost give us shocking examples of how corporations exert, expand and consolidate control over the lives of practically everyone.
You can buy Matt's book here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/silent-...
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
#goodcops are liars. The will create false allogations based upon ego trips.
False allegations from officer attitude are a crime. Sheriff 1st
Sargent, C or G Harris, needs an ego adjustment. He's a criminal in a
uniform. Get the DOJ involved, report him to the FBI and make sure you
get an outside Federal agency involved so you can FOIA the reports and
get there records. Then publish their information so that we can track
their criminal activity as the move from one LEO job to another. File a
civil rights harassment lawsuit against the county. These are usually
systemic problems with a long history of abuse, they need an outside
investigator.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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Public Servant Assaults Citizen For Recording! Will California State Pol...
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Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
Play the race card against the woman card.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Punched For Being OFF Sidewalk | Cop Charged By His Own Department
#goodcop criminally charged by #goodcops
Michigan Racists
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No Crime? - No I.D. - Officer Retaliation Stops Patient From Going To Em...
Imagine you are going to the Emergency Room with your pregnant wife, who was in a car accident the day before, and two cops block your way to have a talk. When you honk to get through, they detain you for hours. I'm not saying cops are bad people, I'm saying they are evil. They KNOWINGLY HARM others for their EGOs.
They aren't people. Even bad people take pregnant women to the Emergency Room.
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My Thymus, Myself | Radiolab Podcast
If you ever wondered how your Immune System can 'remember' what viruses and bacteria to defend against, this is the how. Your Thymus kills off 95% of your T-cells, to create the killer cells that fight off infections.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide is elected president, and it would come into effect only when it would guarantee that outcome.[2][3] As of June 2022, it has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. These states have 195 electoral votes, which is 36% of the Electoral College and 72% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. Some legal observers believe that the compact will require explicit congressional consent under the Compact Clause of Article I, Section X of the U.S. Constitution, or that states have the plenary power to appoint presidential electors as prescribed by the compact under the Elections Clause of Article II, Section I. Other legal observers disagree that the power of states is broad enough to appoint their electors in accordance with the compact, and that the Electoral College cannot be altered to appoint presidential electors in accordance with the national popular vote except by a constitutional amendment.
Find out more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
No Special Duty
Listen to RADIOLAB episode NO SPECIAL DUTY - police are evil.
Since the massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, people across the world began to ask versions of one question: why did police wait outside the door instead of protecting the kids?
It's not the first time this question has come up. Two years ago, as she watched police respond to the protests that followed the death of George Floyd, Producer B.A. Parker wondered: what are police for? With the help of our Producer Sarah Qari, she found that the United States’ Supreme Court had given this a most consequential and bewildering answer.
We decided to re-air this episode to shed light on how a case from 2005 upended our assumptions about the role police are meant to play in our lives.
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Pandora Papers: An unprecedented leak exposes the inner workings of worldwide corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers
The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021.[1][2][3] The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders.
The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021.[1][2][3] The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders.
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